For BT TV, the targets are a multi-room service with an entry-level YouView box, presumably similar to the TalkTalk Essentials TV box.

Multi-room can be achieved using tablets, budget boxes and dongles like Google’s Chromecast, but an essential ingredient will be upgrading customers to superfast broadband which can handle multiple HD video streams.

BT TV will also support the BBC’s Connected Red Button technology – already a part of the HTML-powered Freeview HD – which enables direct connection to streaming video without launching iPlayer.

BT will combine this with its own 5.4m BT Wi-fi hotspots and short range 4G ‘small cells’ using the 2.6GHz radio spectrum it bought in 2013’s frequency auction.

The ‘inside out’ strategy will culminate in a fibre-ready Home Hub router combining 4G and Wi-Fi, so users can move seamlessly between mobile and broadband-based communications.

The rollout of FoD will follow FTTC across commercial and state-funded BDUK areas, making 330Mbps downloads available to businesses which can afford the connection costs.

FTTC will continue to be enhanced by trials of vectoring technologies, enabling it to reach top speeds above 100Mbps and improve long-range speeds in rural areas, while customers close to their fibre cabinet could see Gigabit speeds with G.fast.

However, the presentation avoids setting a timeline for the rollout of FoD and enhanced FTTC.

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